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Annotation: This website describes the Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model, a new CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) initiative designed to improve maternal health care for women enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. The CMS site explains how the new model supports participating state Medicaid agencies in developing a whole-person approach to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care that addresses physical, mental health, and social needs.It details the model's three main pillars: Access to care and workforce capacity, quality improvement and safety, and whole-person care delivery. The site includes a link to the 2024 CMS funding opportunity notice (NOFO) and identifies the 15 states selected to participate in the 10-year program that launched January 2025. It explains how the model aims to improve maternal outcomes while reducing health disparities and program expenditures and provides information about technical assistance for participating states to implement evidence-based protocols, develop health equity plans, and create alternative payment models for maternity care services. Links to related fact sheets, recorded webinars, and CMS service-delivery partners are also included.

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Keywords: Applications, Childbirth, Federal initiatives, Grants, Maternal health, Medicaid, Model programs, Postpartum care, Pregnancy, State programs

Annotation: This website and mobile application provides information and functions to help parents make informed car safety decisions. Features include vehicle crash test ratings, help installing car seats, and safety headlines and alerts including recalls on car seats and tires. Campaign marketing tools are also available. Available in English and Spanish.

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• Apple App

Keywords: Adolescents, Car seats, Children, Infants, Injury prevention, Mobile applications, Motor vehicle safety, Multimedia, Parent education, Parents, Public awareness campaigns, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This set of resources includes a mobile app for parents, caregivers, and educators and is designed to help start a conversation with children about bullying. The materials describe strategies to prevent bullying and explain how to recognize warning signs that a child is being bullied or is bullying. Flyers, media kits, and posters are among the downloadable materials.

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Keywords: Bullying, Children, Communication, Consumer education materials., Mobile applications, Parent child relations, Parents, Violence prevention

Annotation: This website from the CDC has information on the developmental milestones that a child should reach between the ages of two months and five years of age and how parents can find help if they have concerns about their children. There are also materials for healthcare providers, educators, WIC program staff, and home visitors. Free downloadable materials are available in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Arabic, and more. The website also includes a link to the Milestone Tracker app (Android and IOS versions).

• English
• Spanish

Keywords: Child development, Computer/phone applications, Developmental milestones, Developmental screening, Education materials, WIC program

Annotation: This curriculum for health professionals and educators comprises nine courses addressing oral health. Courses focus on the relationship between oral health and systemic health; child oral health; adult oral health; acute oral health problems; pregnancy and women’s oral health; caries risk assessment, fluoride varnish, and counseling; the oral exam; oral health for older adults; and silver diamine fluoride. The courses can be taken for continuing education credit or simply to gain knowledge on the topics.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Continuing education, Curricula, Distance education, Financing, Infants, Mobile applications, Multimedia, Older adults, Oral health, Oral health care, Pregnant women, Resources for professionals, Spanish language materials, Training, Young children

Annotation: This resource provides information on the care map application, a tool to assist families and the professionals they partner with to coordinate and plan health care for children with special health care needs and for all children. The website includes a how-to guide for families and a guide for professionals supporting families. This resource won the 2020 Care Coordination for Children with Special Health Care Needs Challenge sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.

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Keywords: Care coordination, Children with special health care needs, Mobile applications

Annotation: This document describes the modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) methodology for evaluating eligibility for health care affordability program applicants and enrollees. It also provides guidance on implementing and governing the methodology. Topics include Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) populations and eligibility categories subject or exempted from MAGI, determination of countable income, household composition in the marketplace vs. Medicaid/CHIP, household scenarios, MAGI conversion for Medicaid and CHIP, state options for the transition to MAGI-based eligibility systems, and MAGI and the single streamlined application. An accompanying webinar, The World According to MAGI, covers the ins-and-outs of the rules by working through hypothetical family scenarios.

• 2018 Update

Keywords: Applications, Children, Eligibility determination, Families, Family income, Federal initiatives, Health care reform, Health insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, State programs

Annotation: These applications/annual reports provide data on financial, program, and performance measures for state maternal and child health (MCH) programs. The reports also include a description of the status and activities of each program within the context of its data. Topics include the five-year needs assessment, state-selected priorities, linkage of state priorities to national and state performance and outcome measures, and five-year action plan. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

• State Application/annual Report
• State Priorities

Keywords: Applications, Community action, Financing, Goals, Measures, Needs assessment, Program descriptions, Program development, Program evaluation, Program planning, Social Security Act, State MCH programs, Statistical data, Title V

Annotation: This resource provides health tips timed to a woman’s stage of pregnancy or an infant’s age. The service enables pregnant women and new mothers to get health information delivered regularly to their mobile phones by text message. Messages focus on topics such as nutrition, safe sleep, breastfeeding, oral health, and tobacco use. The program also connects women to public clinics and support services for prenatal and infant care. Messages are available in English and Spanish. A mobile application is also available.

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Keywords: Consumer education, Health services delivery, Infant health, Mobile applications, Parent education, Perinatal health, Pregnant women, Spanish language materials, Technology

Annotation: This resource provides military and veteran parents ideas for enhancing everyday moments with their infant or toddler. Contents include behavior tips, ideas for creating activities, and information and ideas on self-care. Parents can personalize the app with their infant’s picture and create a photo gallery of their child’s moods. Parents can sort the information by their young child’s age and specify their situation as At Home, Leaving Soon, Deployed, Home Again, a Veteran, or visiting a hospital. The app also allows access to a series of videos on parenting for military and veteran families. The resource is available in English and Spanish. A handout to share with parents and professionals is also available.

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• Handout To Share With Parents And Professionals

Keywords: Infants, Military, Mobile applications, Parents, Spanish language materials, Toddlers

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Keywords: Mobile applications, Suicide prevention

Annotation: This tool is designed to support the day-to-day work of Head Start home visitors and those who work with them. Users can explore the home visitor’s handbook and other resources in a multimedia format. Topics include child development and early learning; family engagement and relationships; health, safety, and nutrition; program management and supervision; and regulations. The tool is accessible via mobile phone and tablet and offers home visitors the opportunity to read, review, rate, save, and organize materials. A video tutorial is included.

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Keywords: Head Start, Home visiting, Mobile applications, Multimedia, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This report presents findings from an evaluation to assess the implementation and effectiveness of Text4baby, a free text messaging program for pregnant women and new mothers with an infant up to age one. The program is designed to improve maternal and child health among underserved populations in the United States. Topics include awareness, participation, health information knowledge, and behavior among women receiving prenatal care from four community health centers. The evaluation also addressed the role of the public-private partnership and lessons learned about the use of text messaging to provide health information during pregnancy.

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Keywords: Community health centers, Health behavior, Health promotion, Infant health, Knowledge level, Maternal health, Mobile applications, Outreach, Participation, Preconception care, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Program evaluation, Public awareness campaigns

Annotation: This app is designed to empower parents to begin a dialogue with their adolescent or young adult on important health topics, and help manage their own health. Features include a library of health and wellness topics to help parents have discussions with their teen or young adult. The app also provides parents with conversation starters for difficult or sensitive topics; health exams and preventive health information including vaccinations and well-visits; risk-oriented behavior, such as drinking, smoking, or sexual health; social media; and more.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Communication, Mobile applications, Parents, Self care, Transition planning, Young adults

• Program Website

Keywords: Annual reports, Applications, Block grants, Guidelines, Health status, Social Security Act, Title V, State MCH programs, Title V programs

Annotation: This mobile application for pregnant women provides access to health advice and health care services offered by the Wyoming Department of Health. Features include week-by-week updates, a due date calculator, a weight gain calculator, pregnancy milestones, daily tips and affirmations, symptoms and issues, personalized healthy pregnancy actions, pregnancy programs from major health plans, and the BabyBoost relaxation tool. A version for women enrolled in Medicaid provides access to a nurse-staffed call line and other Medicaid-specific referral services.

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• Android

Keywords: Access to health care, Consumer education materials, Information services, Medicaid, Mobile applications, Pregnant women, Public health services, Referrals, Technology, Wyoming

Annotation: This mobile application for parents provides activities to support infants' and toddlers' early learning. The activities are organized by routine (commuting, chores, bedtime and bathtime, mealtime, and shopping). Parents can search activities by age (from birth to age 18 months, 18 to 36 months, and 3 to 5 years).

• IOS
• Android

Keywords: Infants, Learning, Mobile applications, Play, Young children

Annotation: This report describes the results of a nationwide telephone survey of Text4baby participants, in the areas of reminders for appointments and immunizations, accessing health information, informing women of health information and medical issues, facilitating communication with medical providers, and helping women access services and make healthy choices for them and their baby. It also describes the perceived usefulness of Tex4baby and linguistic appropriateness for Spanish speakers,

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Keywords: Consumer education, Mobile applications, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Program evaluation, Public awareness campaigns, Spanish language materials, Surveys, Technology

Annotation: This evidence-based care program addresses depression and anxiety with an integrated drug and alcohol program. The program helps users create myChallenges support resources, which are cognitive behavioral therapy-based tools for relapse prevention planning. With the help of motivational interviewing techniques, myStrength meets users where they are. myStrength can enhance care models by providing consumers with 24-hour access to web and mobile self-care tools.

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Keywords: Depression, Mental health, Mobile applications

Annotation: This manual is designed to help school districts improve the health services they provide to students. Contents include a school-health-services assessment tool; injury and illness protocols; sample policies and procedures for emergency nursing services, concussion management, managing and preventing acute reactions to foods in the school setting, and medication administration; and nurse procedures. The manual also contains instructions for unlicensed assistive personnel on hand hygiene, oral care, feeding, transfers, and diapering for students who need such care at school.

• School Nurse Procedure Manual (mobile Website)
• WISHeS Project Resources

Keywords: Assessment, Disease management, Disease prevention, Mobile applications, Nursing services, Oral health, Patient care management, Patient care planning, Protocols, School based management, School districts, School health services, School nurses, School personnel, Special health care needs, Training